September 2006
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Book Deals, Hotties, Julie Buxbaum
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Buxbaum
Yesterday we wrote about Julie Buxbaum, the 2002 graduate of Harvard Law School who just landed a $500,000, two-book deal with Dial Press. We also asked you for more information about her — where she practiced law before leaving for the writing life, what she’s like as a person, etc. Via Friendster, we learn that […] -
Bad Ideas, Biglaw, Food, Interview Stories, Job Searches
Interview Horror Stories: The Roll Recycler
The evening air is turning crisp. The kids are back in school. You’re starting to think about where to spend Thanksgiving. That’s right, everyone: Autumn is here. (Official start of fall this year: Saturday, September 23.) In the legal world, everyone knows what fall means: job interviews. Second- and third-year law students are interviewing for […] - Sponsored
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HP, Larry Sonsini, Manuel Real, Morning Docket, War on Terror, White-Collar Crime
Morning Docket: 09.19.06
* More back-and-forth between the Bush Administration and Congress concerning rules to govern the interrogation of terror suspects. The White House sent Congress a revised proposal last night; a deal could be reached by the end of this week. [Washington Post] * More developments in the HP leak investigation scandal. The most interesting: even Larry […]
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Clerkships, SCOTUS Clerks Are Fair Game, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Clerks
Supreme Court Clerks Are Fair Game: Part 4
Here’s the fourth post in our continuing series about why there’s nothing wrong with writing about Supreme Court clerks. Prior installments are available here (Part 1), here (Part 2), and here (Part 3). We’d also like to direct your attention to this excellent comment by a reader — replete with an eloquent quote from Schopenhauer. […] -
Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 09.18.06
* The lyrics of Bob Dylan are the most frequently cited song lyrics in law review articles and judicial opinions. [Volokh Conspiracy; Insert Song Lyrics Here (pdf)] * The tabloids and celebrity weeklies are all over the mysterious death of Daniel Smith, the 20-year-old son of successful SCOTUS litigant Anna Nicole Smith. [Gawker; Gawker] * […] -
Bad Ideas, Biglaw, Gay
How Not To Come Out to the Partners At Your Firm
The anecdote we’re about to share with you is on the vulgar side. So if you’d rather not be exposed to such crudeness, just skip this post. (Mom and Dad, this means you.) We heard this story recently over drinks — but we have the permission of the storyteller to publish it. So if you […] -
Clerkships, SCOTUS Clerks Are Fair Game, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Clerks
Supreme Court Clerks Are Fair Game: Part 3
This is the third post in a series defending the propriety of writing about Supreme Court clerks. The first two installments are available here and here. The rest of this post, making the third point in our multi-part argument, appears after the jump. -
Biglaw, Musical Chairs, Sonnenschein, Venable
Musical Chairs: 09.18.06
Lateral Moves: * Global trade lawyers Duane Layton, Sydney Mintzer and Jeffrey Lowe, to Mayer Brown, from Miller & Chevalier. * Bankruptcy lawyer Stephen Gallagher, to Venable LLP, from LeClair Ryan PC. * Intellectual property litigator Daniel McCloskey, to Greenberg Traurig (of counsel), from Dechert. Internal Promotions: * Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal: Kara Baysinger has […] - Sponsored
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Clerkships, SCOTUS Clerks Are Fair Game, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Clerks
Supreme Court Clerks Are Fair Game: Part 2
This is the second post in our continuing manifesto, started this morning, as to why it’s okay to write about former Thomas clerk Chantel Febus’s appreciation for Lenny Kravitz. Most of you probably have no interest in the rest of this post; if you’re visiting a site like this one, you probably enjoy rather than […] -
Biglaw, Food
What A SeamlessWeb We Weave, When Our Desks We Cannot Leave
We’d like to call your attention to this interesting Sunday Times article (and not just ’cause we’re quoted in it). It’s about the internet-based food delivery company SeamlessWeb. The Times explains: Every weekday, when they are hungry, thousands of the most highly paid workers in New York City will log on to the same Web […] -
Attorney Misconduct, Bad Ideas, John Marshall Law School, Sex, Sex Scandals
This Sex Scandal Is Finger-Lickin' Good
Above the Law bills itself as “a legal tabloid.” And no tabloid would be complete without a sex scandal. Our scandale du jour emanates from the Windy City, home of John Marshall Law School. The Chicago Sun-Times reports: When students returned to John Marshall Law School this month, everyone was talking about the lawsuit against […] -
Clerkships, Linda Greenhouse, SCOTUS Clerks Are Fair Game, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Clerks
Supreme Court Clerks Are Fair Game: Part 1
We understand that some of you have been upset by our recent coverage of a certain future Supreme Court clerk. As we mentioned over the weekend, we are instituting a moratorium on coverage of this clerk, at least for the time being. So all of you irate commenters can unwad your panties, spray Febreze on […] -
Book Deals, Books, Julie Buxbaum, Money, Nauseating Things
Harvard Law Hottie Lands Monster Book Deal
We follow the media and publishing worlds almost as closely as the legal world, so we’re not quite sure how we missed this. But we did, and we’re sorry. So we’re bringing it to you now, a few days late — and we apologize if you’ve already read about it somewhere else. For all of […]
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Akin Gump, Biglaw, Bonuses, Money, Skaddenfreude
Skaddenfreude: Wachtell Lipton, Akin Gump
Last week we broke the news of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz bestowing generous midyear bonuses upon its associates. We heard that associates who graduated law school in the class of 2000 received $40,000, and class of 2002 members received $30,000. We’ve now learned that class of 2005 associates got $15,000, and class of 2004 […] -
Ann Coulter, Anna Nicole Smith, Birthdays, CIA, Comverse, David Souter, Deaths, HP, Morning Docket, War on Terror
Morning Docket: 09.18.06
* Another day, another deepening of the doo-doo over at HP. Now the plot is taking on a “made-for-television-movie” feel: “[D]etectives tried to plant software on at least one journalist’s computer that would enable messages to be traced.” [New York Times] * National security adviser Stephen Hadley indicates that the White House is trying to […]
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Antonin Scalia, Contests, Depositions, ERISA, Hotties, Reality TV, Summer Associates, Supreme Court Clerks, Survivor, Viet Dinh, Week in Review
ATL Week in Review
* Our first annual ERISA Hotties Contest is over, and America’s hottest pension and employee benefit lawyers have been crowned. Some other great candidates were passed over; but hey, not everyone can win. * The new season of Survivor: an exotic Cook Islands setting, interracial conflict — and hot Asian lawyers. * Practice pointer: When […] -
Andrew Sullivan, Glenn Reynolds, Nancy Grace, Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 09.15.06
* New Jersey politics: Never a dull moment. [Wall Street Journal via Instapundit] * Did Nancy Grace go too far in her grilling of Melinda Duckett? [MSNBC via Andrew Sullivan; Crime & Federalism] * If you royally piss off a judge with a recusal request, which he denies, can you try to get him recused […] -
Bad Ideas, Prostitution, Sex
Not Another Teen Movie Summer Associate Story
But it might as well be one. A tipster sent us this anecdote, following up on our Cristina Schultz coverage: Towards the end of my first year at the University of Texas School of Law, one of the first-years stopped showing up to class. But then she showed up at an end-of-year party for her […] -
Bruce Kovner, Money, Rachel Kovner, Ridiculousness, Supreme Court Clerks
Rachel Kovner: Poor Little Rich Girl?
In light of our earlier posts about Cristina Schultz and Rachel Kovner, Friday is rapidly turning into “Women of Stanford Law” day here at ATL. And that’s not about to change. We’ve received some interesting responses to our wall-to-wall coverage of Ms. Kovner — whom we are determined to turn into a celebrity, whether she […] -
Allen & Overy, Biglaw, Day Berry & Howard, Musical Chairs, Patricia Hynes, Securities and Exchange Commission
Musical Chairs: 09.15.06
Lateral Moves: * Litigator Robert Knuts, to Allen & Overy, from Day, Berry & Howard. Knuts was with the New York office of the SEC from 1994 to 2003. As you may recall, London-based Allen & Overy is trying to build up its New York litigation practice — most recently through the addition of former […]